Pipe-hanger.



L. A. CARPENTER & R. MIDDLETON.

PIPE HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 28, 1912.

1,063,852. Patented June 3, 1913.

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LEWIS A. CARPENTER AND RICHARD MIDDLETON, OF REVERE, MASSACHUSETTS.

PIPE-HANGER.

Application filed April 26, 1912.

To (/U 'II /LUI/t if may concern lie it known that we, Lewis .i. CARPEN- rnn and ltnnmnn ill lnhl'il l'ltLN, citizens oi? the United States, and both residing in Revere, county of t utlollc, and State of lttassaehusetts, have invented an improvement in lipe-llangers, of which the 'lollowing description, in coimection with the accompanving drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to a pipe hanger and has for its object to produce a light, strong and inexpensive hanger, which is capable ot being made of thin galvanized iron and yet possess the strength desired.

To this end the hanger is composed essentially ot threepieces, to wit, two pipc engaging members and a hell, with which one oi the pipe engaging members is socured to torm practically one piece, whereby a two piece hanger is obtained. The pipe engaging members are provided with sul'istantially tlat ears at their opposite ends, and between said ears with cupped or grooved portions which engage the pipe.

The particular features of the invention will be pointed out in the claims at the end oi this specification.

Figure 1 is an elevation of a pipe hanger embodying this invention, and applied to a pipe. Fig. 2, a side elevation of the hanger and pipe shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3, a section on the line 3---3 Fig. 1. Fig. 4-, a section on the line t--4l; Fig. 2, and Fig. 5, a view oi the separate parts of the hanger.

The pipe hanger herein shown is made 01 sheetmetal and particularly of galvanized sheet iron, and comprises pipe engaging members a, Z), and a bell 0. Each of the pipe engaging members a, b, is provided with substantially flat cars 10 and in interme diate curved or snl'lstantially semi-circular portion 12 which latter is capped or curved transversely for its length to strengthen the same. ()ne of the pipe engaging members as b is fastened to the hell 0, so as to term therewith practically one piece, and in the present instance the intcrn'iediate curved portion 12 is provided at its longitudinal center with a circular opening 15, whose walls 16 are elongated outwardly to form a nipple, which is extended into an opening 17 in the head 18 of the bell 0, and then expanded outwardly to overlap the head 18 Specification of Letters Patent.

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on its inner side and lirmly secure the bell to the pipe engaging member I), so as to practically I'orm one piece, which is capable or" being handled as such, and secured to a ceiling, wall or other support 20 by a screw 21, extended through the openings 15, 17 in the member 1 and bell 0, into the said support, with the head ot' the screw below the contracting edges 23 ot' the said member. The member may be secured to the member 7) atlter the pipe EZ-t has been placed in engagement with the member Z), by screws 25, which are passed through holes 26 in the ears 10 ot the member a and into holes 27 in the cars 10 ol? the member I), the holes 27 having their walls elongated and threaded on their inner circmnlerenee to be en gaged by the screws 25.

The lninger herein described is capable (it being made from thin galvanized sheet iron, which enables it to be made very cheap, and the construction of the pipe engaging members :with the flat ears 2nd concaved pipe engaging portion, enables the hanger when made of thin galvanized iron to have the (lesired strength required to support the pipe.

The sheet metal bell serves as an ornamental base and also serves to reduce the cost, and by securing the bell to the member so as to term practically one piece, the cost of labor in applying the hanger to the pipe is materially lessened, all oil which serves to enable the trade to be furnished with a galvanized sheet metal hanger of superior strength and more attractive appearance than the cheap but unsightly method of securing pipes in cellars and other parts of the household by means of a plain band of galvanized iron nailed to the ceiling or other support.

Claims:

1. A pipe hanger ot' the class described, comprising a sheet metal bell having a head provided with an opening, a sheet metal pipe engaging member having a. eoncaved substantially semi-circnlar pipe engaging portion having an opening whose walls are extcmled outwardly to term a nipple which extended through the opening in the head of the bell and expanded to engage said head and tool: said member to said bell, and a second sheet: metal pipe engaging member cooperating with the first mentioned member, snbstz'mtially as described.

2. A pipe hanger of the class described, first-mentioned member, substantially as decomprising a sheet metal bell, a sheet metal scribed.

pipe-engaging member, one of said parts In testimony whereof, we have signed 0111" having an opening whose walls are extendnames to this specification in the presence of 5 ed outwardly to form'a nipple wh1ch 1s eX- two SHbSCIlblIlg wltnesses.

tended into an opening in the other of said LEWIS A. CARPENTER. r parts and expanded to lock the two parts RICHARD MIDDLETON.

together so as to enable them to be handled Witnesses: as one piece, and a second sheet metal pipe- JAS. H. CHURCHILL, I 10 engaging member cooperating with "the" J. MURPHY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents eaeh, by addressing" the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

